The 7 Startups selected will receive a $2000 equity-free grant and opportunity for further funding, as well as access to virtual workspace and mentorship from some of Africa’s top healthcare, business and technology leaders to help scale their company.

The 7 STARTUPS ARE:

Wellvis Health (Wale Adeosun): The startup offers solutions that promote primary care, by improving the health of the public through continuous access to personalised health information.

Prunedge (Joel Ogunsola): Prunedge is a technology company that develops innovative solutions to improve the efficiency of processes, the livelihood of people and aid decision making within organizations.

Infodemics (Nestor Inimgba): The startup uses existing social hierarchies in a community to efficiently and effectively communicate health risks.

Wellahealth (Ikpeme Neto): This startup has developed a digital triage bot that provides guidance based on Nigeria Centre for Disease Control guidelines and logs responses for follow up by public health as needed.

MyServiceAgent (Mayowa Ayodeji): MyServiceAgent is an artificial intelligence (AI) powered intelligent IVR system that can communicate with hundreds to thousands of callers simultaneously and intelligently and disseminate correct information from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control as well as pass on the data to the NCDC to act on swiftly.

Innover Technologies (Okorie Tochukwu): This startup is committed to using technology to solve problems. The company’s solution for the project is named Covid-19 Nigeria.